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A collection of poems that celebrates the wonder, mystery, and danger of the night and describes the many things that hide in the dark.
Welcome to the night -- Snail at moonrise -- Love poem of the primrose moth -- Dark emperor -- Oak after dark -- Night-spider's advice -- I am a baby porcupette -- Cricket speaks -- Mushrooms come -- Ballad of the wandering eft -- Bat wraps up -- Moon's lament.
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Animals dominate this humane and serious sixth collection from Mathis, at first in the chill forests of New England, and then in and around the sea.... Mathis's pages show heart, observation, and thought; they also show a loneliness, and a sense of lost human connection assuaged by instinct, by 'her own animal self.'
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"'The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea in a box on the living room floor. They sailed away for a year and a day, and these are the things that they saw...' Join two curious children on a quirky adventure, based on the classic Edward Lear poem, The Owl and the Pussycat"--Back cover.
13) On beyond zebra
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The narrator creates a nonsence alphabet of letters that come after Z.
14) Animal stackers
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An illustrated collection of children's poems about animals. The first letter in each line of verse spells the name of a particular animal.
16) Scranimals
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So put on your pith helmet and prepare to explore a wilderness of puns and rhymes where birds, beasts, vegetables, and flowers have been mysteriously scrambled together to create creatures you've never seen before -- and are unlikely to meet again! Your guides -- Jack Prelutsky, poet laureate of the elementary school set, and two-time Caldecott Honor artist Peter Sis -- invite you to join them on an adventure you will never forget!
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At the core of this collection are 30 poems inspired by the stories of kinship between saints and animals. They come mostly from the early Christian desert and Celtic traditions, but also feature later medieval saints like St. Francis of Assisi and St. Julian of Norwich. These stories point to a reverence for a different way of knowing and being in the world, one our world is hungry for. Each poem in this collection is meant to be a doorway to intimacy...
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